Title :
A Grimm collection of MIMD fairy tales
Author :
Blank, Tom ; Nickolls, John R.
Author_Institution :
MasPar Computer Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors present two tales about massively parallel processors: `Who is Fairest of Us All?´ and `The SPMD Path.´ With a twist of humor, the tales discuss single-instruction multiple-data systems (SIMD), multiple-instruction multiple-data (MIMD) systems, differences, and the single program multiple data (SPMD) programming model. The first tale introduces autonomous SIMD (ASIMD), and then looks at the flexibility, programmability, cost, and effectiveness of MIMD and ASIMD systems. It is shown that ASIMD systems have the flexibility to solve real applications cost-effectively. The second tale describes the simple path that SPMD provides for programming, and why an ASIMD machine works well
Keywords :
parallel processing; programming; cost; massively parallel processors; multiple-instruction multiple-data; programmability; single program multiple data programming model; single-instruction multiple-data systems; Communication system control; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Costs; Electric shock; Mirrors; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Snow; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1992., Fourth Symposium on the
Conference_Location :
McLean, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2772-7
DOI :
10.1109/FMPC.1992.234881
